As a start, we asked Linda Kasparian Kamajian ’73 to survey her family members. After all, three generations of the Kasparian family chose URI.

“As our very first generation arrived and gained footing in the Rhode Island economy in about 1900, URI was apparently the institution of choice for higher education for grandchildren graduating in the 1940s,” says Kamajian. “These are Violet (Kasparian) Ohanasian ’48 and Alice (Asadoorian) Topakian ’48.